— Big Scale

Casa Almazera

Where the Rock Shapes the Design

A home carved into the land, embracing a pre-existing excavation to blend with the terrain, enhance privacy, and reveal the natural rock from its core.

What at first glance seemed like a flaw in the plot—a large, abrupt excavation—becomes the starting point of the project. Instead of erasing it, we chose to embrace it.

The house emerges from the void, folding itself into the contours of the land. At its deepest point lies the core of the home, where all levels converge. Here, the raw rock pierces into the hallway, exposed and unfiltered, a living remnant of geological memory.

This tactile relationship with the land grounds the house in place—natural, elemental, unapologetically real.

The volumes unfold without overlapping, each one paired with its own garden at the same level, creating a seamless connection between indoor and outdoor, between light and stone.

The architecture doesn’t stand above; it stays low, embedded, horizontal—moving with the terrain, never against it.

Almazera doesn’t occupy the land—it honors it. And in doing so, it invites us to live in direct conversation with the Earth.

Difficulties

— Large existing excavation
— Accused slope with different inclination

Achieved goals

— Privacy from the road and from neighbours
— Savings in earthworks